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INSIDE
Opinion: Local businesses
must adapt to chains, p 8
Sports: Volleyball, p 16
A&E: New yogurt shop, p 19
Issue 2, VOL 99 Sept. 8 - Sept. 14, 2011
BY william brown
see BUSINESS page 5
Employees at Chipolte serve food to a line of customers. Chipolte, a Mexican food restaurant
that opened at the start of summer, is just one of many new chains. (Photo by Andrew Conte)
Life:
Random
roomates,
p 12
At a time when jobs are dif-ficult
to find and unemploy-ment
is high, businesses are
still coming to Flagstaff.
Walmart opened a new outlet at
2601 E. Huntington Dr. this past year,
and a new Subway Café just opened
at 1500 E. Cedar Ave. Five Guys
Burgers and Fries, a chain which
started in Virginia, is also coming
to town and is slated to open later
this year in the Green Tree Shopping
Plaza adjacent to campus. John Stig-
Bustling business
New chains, such as Chipolte and Panda Express, have come to Flag in the
past few months. What is driving this rapid expansion in a down economy?
mon, economic development man-ager
for the city of Flagstaff, said the
city is attractive to retailers due to the
growth of the city and NAU.
“The market is growing,” Stig-mon
said. “The market grows in
population by about 2 percent a year,
consistent over the last 30 years. With
the recession, it’s begun to slow down.
Our market is much more stable than
other Arizona markets . . . and then,
the university has been growing. So,
not only has our base population
been growing, but the university
open for business
• Chipotle
• Panda Express
• Subway Cafe
(Expansion to
Milton Subway)
• Walmart (Hun-tington
Dr.)
• Little Caesar’s
coming soon
• Five Guys
• Renovated Mc-
Donalds (Milton)
Ap a rtisan air has settled over
the country’s politi-cal
mood, but on Saturday
people gathered at a town
hall meeting at the Flag-staff
Woodlands Radisson
to listen — and speak to —
Arizona conservatives, in-cluding
U.S. Representative
(R-AZ-01) Paul Gosar.
The “Feet to the Fire
Taxpayer Town Hall” series,
sponsored by the Arizona
branch of Americans for Prosperity
(AFP), came to Flagstaff after a recent
appearance in Sedona. The AFP is plan-ning
even more town hall meetings and
open forums in the coming months to
discuss the economic state of
the nation.
The Arizona AFP Di-rector,
Tom Jenney, said the
main purpose of the meeting
was to inform people of the
economic trouble the coun-try
is in.
“What we are try-ing
to achieve is to get the
congressman and to get
taxpayers and Tea Partiers
BY William Brown
U.S. Rep. Gosar featured at Tea Party town hall meet
see TOWN HAL page 7
Farmers market their wares
Growers, residents sprout
By Trevor Gould
Every Wednesday afternoon and Sunday morning, the
Flagstaff City Hall parking lot undergoes a dramatic
transformation. Instead of cars, the asphalt lot is full of
tents and booths, each one displaying an abundance of local
wares. Vendors carry crates and boxes teeming with fresh lo-cal
produce, propping them up on tables to ensure they are
right in people’s line of sight. Customers flock to the parking
lot, perusing the wide variety of fruits and vegetables while in-teracting
with the local farming community. This scene is the
Flagstaff Community Market (FCM), a weekly event that en-ables
residents to interact and purchase fresh produce from a
host of local growers.
see MARKET page 22
GOS AR

SINCE 1914
NorthernArizonaNews.com
Go to NorthernArizonaNews.com for daily updates, multimedia packages, extra content and stories before the issue hits the stands.
INSIDE
Opinion: Local businesses
must adapt to chains, p 8
Sports: Volleyball, p 16
A&E: New yogurt shop, p 19
Issue 2, VOL 99 Sept. 8 - Sept. 14, 2011
BY william brown
see BUSINESS page 5
Employees at Chipolte serve food to a line of customers. Chipolte, a Mexican food restaurant
that opened at the start of summer, is just one of many new chains. (Photo by Andrew Conte)
Life:
Random
roomates,
p 12
At a time when jobs are dif-ficult
to find and unemploy-ment
is high, businesses are
still coming to Flagstaff.
Walmart opened a new outlet at
2601 E. Huntington Dr. this past year,
and a new Subway Café just opened
at 1500 E. Cedar Ave. Five Guys
Burgers and Fries, a chain which
started in Virginia, is also coming
to town and is slated to open later
this year in the Green Tree Shopping
Plaza adjacent to campus. John Stig-
Bustling business
New chains, such as Chipolte and Panda Express, have come to Flag in the
past few months. What is driving this rapid expansion in a down economy?
mon, economic development man-ager
for the city of Flagstaff, said the
city is attractive to retailers due to the
growth of the city and NAU.
“The market is growing,” Stig-mon
said. “The market grows in
population by about 2 percent a year,
consistent over the last 30 years. With
the recession, it’s begun to slow down.
Our market is much more stable than
other Arizona markets . . . and then,
the university has been growing. So,
not only has our base population
been growing, but the university
open for business
• Chipotle
• Panda Express
• Subway Cafe
(Expansion to
Milton Subway)
• Walmart (Hun-tington
Dr.)
• Little Caesar’s
coming soon
• Five Guys
• Renovated Mc-
Donalds (Milton)
Ap a rtisan air has settled over
the country’s politi-cal
mood, but on Saturday
people gathered at a town
hall meeting at the Flag-staff
Woodlands Radisson
to listen — and speak to —
Arizona conservatives, in-cluding
U.S. Representative
(R-AZ-01) Paul Gosar.
The “Feet to the Fire
Taxpayer Town Hall” series,
sponsored by the Arizona
branch of Americans for Prosperity
(AFP), came to Flagstaff after a recent
appearance in Sedona. The AFP is plan-ning
even more town hall meetings and
open forums in the coming months to
discuss the economic state of
the nation.
The Arizona AFP Di-rector,
Tom Jenney, said the
main purpose of the meeting
was to inform people of the
economic trouble the coun-try
is in.
“What we are try-ing
to achieve is to get the
congressman and to get
taxpayers and Tea Partiers
BY William Brown
U.S. Rep. Gosar featured at Tea Party town hall meet
see TOWN HAL page 7
Farmers market their wares
Growers, residents sprout
By Trevor Gould
Every Wednesday afternoon and Sunday morning, the
Flagstaff City Hall parking lot undergoes a dramatic
transformation. Instead of cars, the asphalt lot is full of
tents and booths, each one displaying an abundance of local
wares. Vendors carry crates and boxes teeming with fresh lo-cal
produce, propping them up on tables to ensure they are
right in people’s line of sight. Customers flock to the parking
lot, perusing the wide variety of fruits and vegetables while in-teracting
with the local farming community. This scene is the
Flagstaff Community Market (FCM), a weekly event that en-ables
residents to interact and purchase fresh produce from a
host of local growers.
see MARKET page 22
GOS AR